Further Validation of Stahl and Harrell's Job Choice Exercise in Measuring McClelland's Trichotomy of Needs

摘要

A study of 239 successful U.S. Air Force officers was conducted to test the reliability and validity of Stahl and Harrell's (1981) Job Choice Exercise (JCE) as a policy capturing tool. The JCE measured subjects' nPow, nAch, and nAff from a behavioral decision theory modeling approach. The single experimental condition consisted of three instrumentalities at two levels of measurements resulting in eight hypothetical jobs. This research controlled for several demographic variables by using regression analysis. Results generally supported Stahl and Harrell's findings. Differences in test results were attributed to differences in test groups. (Author)